Quotes About Insight

Nós não somos tão lúcidos quanto fingimos ser.

Read the text right and emancipate the world. – Robert Browning

dark, difficult enough the human sphere, yet eyes grow sharp by use

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.

Oh the gift that God could give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

All lives are interesting – how interesting depends on the telling

Pike noticed details. The Marines had trained him to maintain situational awareness

You're a very wise man. Thank you." He spread his hands. "To possess great wisdom obliges one to share it. Enjoy.

I went over to the big couch and sat down next to Mimi. She was watching everything the way a goldfish watches the world from its bowl, all big eyes and vulnerability and with an assumption of invisibility.

For it is the books you have read, as much as the people you have met, that constitute autobiography.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

It's just that sometimes things that you don't think are important turn out to be.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those Not in position to look too close.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short.

The ear is the only writer and the only true reader.

I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.

Something was withheld . . . We found it was ourselves.

There ought to be a view around the world From such a mountain

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. –